From Seoul to Varanasi

From Seoul to Varanasi

7.8

Total votes: 83

Release Date: Feb 14, 2013

Duration: 1 hr. 38 min.

Year: 2013

Country: South Korea

Native Title: 불륜의 시대

Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

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Genre: Drama, Melodrama, Romance

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Seoul, the present day, winter. Book publisher Yeong-u (Yun Dong-hwan) is having an affaire with Su-yeon (Shin Ye-an), a writer. His bored wife, Ji-yeong (Choi Won-jeong), takes yoga lessons at classes run by Samira (Cassandra Holmes). Samira and her brother Kerim (Nollaig Walsh) are Lebanese-born Muslims who were adopted by Canadians when young. Kerim works at a restaurant, outside which Ji-yeong accidentally knocks down a sign with her car. She gives himher mobile number, saying she’ll pay for the damage, and when Kerim faints in the street one day she is contacted by hospital staff and arranges for him to be treated. A friendship grows between the two and, when Kerim and his Muslim friend Ali (Nigel D’Sa) journey to the holy Indian city of Varanasi, Ji-yeong later flies there on a whim to find him, leaving a note for Yeong-u that she’s gone to visit her brother down south in Changwon for a rest.

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